Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Literature / MirrorWorld

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* CurseCutShort: Dreya cuts herself off entering the heat of battle with House Dusk:
-->"You scavenger sons of--"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DarkAndTroubledPast: Vita is hinted to have a very unhappy past, and refuses to dwell on it overmuch.

to:

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Vita is hinted to have a very gradually reveals pieces of her unhappy past, past involving her parents splitting apart, and she refuses to dwell on it overmuch.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* VagueAge: Downplayed. Vita's age isn't directly stated, but she's in her teenage years and hinted to be around 13-16.

Added: 444

Changed: 1

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* GrayAndGrayMorality: Vita is essentially just a scared young girl trapped in an EldritchLocation, and those in the Houses are usually range from "pleasant" to "jackass" with even many of Vita's nominal allies being ''severely'' prejudiced and sometimes downright murderous toward anyone that isn't one of their own. The closest thing to a villain outside of the unknowable krylyrk is Zeil, and even ''he'' has significant redeeming qualities.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Geiger comes off as nasty and unsympathetic to Vita at first, only to reveal a softer, more understanding side later to her..

to:

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Geiger comes off as nasty and unsympathetic to Vita at first, only to reveal a softer, more understanding side later to her..her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''Mirrorworld'' is a horror [[WebOriginalFiction Web Novel]] by Scraggle. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3333104/1/Mirrorworld here]].

to:

''Mirrorworld'' is a horror horror-fantasy [[WebOriginalFiction Web Novel]] by Scraggle. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3333104/1/Mirrorworld here]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
sinkhole no pothole in page quote


->"''[[ArcWords Don't think, don't talk, don't question.]]''"

to:

->"''[[ArcWords Don't ->"''Don't think, don't talk, don't question.]]''"
''"

Added: 258

Removed: 119

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* LighterAndSofter: eldritch horrors? Perhaps, but this appears to be much less dark than previous works by the writer.


Added DiffLines:

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Vita makes a reference to a "four-letter-word" (without specifying or implying which it is) her mother called her father the last time she saw her, one she later repeated to her friends in elementary school in apparent frustration
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DecoyAntagonist: [[spoiler:Zeil is introduced as the biggest threat in Inoptica sans the krylyrk itself, with a long grudge against the House Vita ends up joining and particular designs on Vita's life. He's unceremoniously killed in chapter one -- [[SmallRoleBigImpact but he manages to take Volte with him with a war all but sure to follow]].]]


Added DiffLines:

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Just when it seems Volte's ready to accept Vita's wishes and move her to Midnight, even showing he ''does'' understand what Vita's going through, Zeil murders him in the tenth chapter, leaving House Noon without a leader and Wiggy without a brother.]]

Added: 204

Changed: 100

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* WasOnceAMan: Anyone who arrives in the mirror world slowly becomes a new being, depending on the House they join.

to:

* WasOnceAMan: WasOnceAMan:
**
Anyone who arrives in the mirror world slowly becomes a new being, depending on the House they join.join.
** The Bandersnatch is a pretty twisted looking creature, kept as a sort of pet, that was once human.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BigBad: The krylyrk, the mysterious, eldritch force behind the titular dimension, serves simultaneously as this and an UltimateEvil.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DarkFantasy: Quite a bit more so than the usual DownTheRabbitHole story, with a mysterious EldritchLocation prowling with horrifying monsters and bizarre, vampiric humanoids as the main setting and a grim, foreboding atmosphere over it all.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The 'Day-Vampires', as they're named, gain power from fire for one.

to:

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The 'Day-Vampires', '[[DaywalkingVampire day-vamps]]', as they're named, gain power from fire for one.light, making them an inversion of the normal "killed by sunlight" stereotype.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BigBrotherInstinct: Volte is Wiggy's elder brother and committed to protecting her.


Added DiffLines:

* CheerfulChild: For a little bat-winged creature, Wiggy is just precious and lets nothing get her perkiness down.


Added DiffLines:

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Geiger comes off as nasty and unsympathetic to Vita at first, only to reveal a softer, more understanding side later to her..


Added DiffLines:

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The 'Day-Vampires', as they're named, gain power from fire for one.


Added DiffLines:

* TraumaCongaLine: Vita ends up stuck in another world, hunted by monsters, shunted from one strange house to the next, nearly hunted by the vicious Zeil and is facing being trapped forever. Not a very good day, all in all.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ShrinkingViolet: Justified given [[TrappedInAnotherWorld her predicament]], but Vita's ''incredibly'' timid and fearful around most of Incognita's populace, to the point where she ineffectually wraps herself up in a sheet in some attempt to hide from Geiger.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Vita tries this multiple times, fleeing the situations she finds herself in out of refusal to understand or accept what she's stuck in.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The very premise: Vita is stuck in the world beyond the mirror with no known way she can get home.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* FantasticRacism: There seems to be some serious nastiness between the houses. Zeil dismissively calls others 'Noonies' and 'Moon Scum.'
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* VagueAge: Downplayed. Vita's age isn't directly stated, but she's in her teenage years and hinted to be around 13-16.

to:

* VagueAge: Downplayed. Vita's age isn't directly stated, but she's in her teenage years and hinted to be around 13-16.13-16.
* WasOnceAMan: Anyone who arrives in the mirror world slowly becomes a new being, depending on the House they join.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Aile is an amazing shot with a bow, and brags she can shoot an apple in the dark from 500 paces.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zeil is quite upset his 'Pye' was taken from him.


Added DiffLines:

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Zeil is shot in the shoulder with an arrow and seems to have no reaction to just ''ripping'' it out.

Added: 432

Removed: 198

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DarkAndTroubledPast: Vita is hinted to have a very unhappy past, and refuses to dwell on it overmuch.
* DownTheRabbitHole: Vita is a young teenage girl going on a dark journey to another dimension where people therein slowly become less and more than human and must learn to either cope or escape.



* FangsAreEvil: Zeil seems to have a nasty set of chompers and he's not exactly a nice fellow, with the sharp teeth only enhancing it.



* ThroughTheRabbitHole: Vita is a young teenage girl going on a dark journey to another dimension where people therein slowly become less and more than human and must learn to either cope or escape.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AffablyEvil: Zeil may be cruel and enjoy hunting others, but his friendliness is pretty genuine.


Added DiffLines:

* TheCutie: Wiggy is about ten, with batlike wings and features who still manages to be utterly adorable and cheerful.


Added DiffLines:

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Zeil and his cronies are far more bestial than the others Vita meets in the other world and seem to enjoy hunting down others.


Added DiffLines:

* ThroughTheRabbitHole: Vita is a young teenage girl going on a dark journey to another dimension where people therein slowly become less and more than human and must learn to either cope or escape.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* NothingIsScarier: Just ''what'' is responding to Vita's texts and lurking in the house? Not answered, but that makes it all the more unnerving.

to:

* NothingIsScarier: Just ''what'' is responding to Vita's texts and lurking in the house? Not answered, but that makes it all the more unnerving.unnerving.
* VagueAge: Downplayed. Vita's age isn't directly stated, but she's in her teenage years and hinted to be around 13-16.

Added: 89

Changed: 2

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* AuthorAppeal: Eldritch horrors, creepily unexplained situations, female teenage protagonists with an edge to them? Anyone who's read ''{{Literature/The Never Mythos}}'' and ''{{Literature/The Heaven Cycle}} may not be surprised.

to:

* AuthorAppeal: Eldritch horrors, creepily unexplained situations, female teenage protagonists with an edge to them? Anyone who's read ''{{Literature/The Never Mythos}}'' and ''{{Literature/The Heaven Cycle}} Cycle}}'' may not be surprised.


Added DiffLines:

* MeaningfulName: "Aile" means "wing" in French, which ties in well with her avian motif.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


--->"''[[ArcWords Don't think, don't talk, don't question.]]''"

to:

--->"''[[ArcWords ->"''[[ArcWords Don't think, don't talk, don't question.]]''"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

--->"''[[ArcWords Don't think, don't talk, don't question.]]''"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BodyHorror: The red beast is described in sickening terms as something melded together and that should not exist.
* EldritchAbomination: The red, multi-limbed beast is barely comprehensible to the human mind and justly terrifying.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

''Mirrorworld'' is a horror [[WebOriginalFiction Web Novel]] by Scraggle. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3333104/1/Mirrorworld here]].

Yearning for a life beyond "making the ends meet," the arbitrary whims of indolent, listless teenager Vita bring her to a strange world parallel to ours through an inconspicuous mirror. Stranded among bizarre, mutated "freaks" who seem preoccupied with fighting each other, Vita, only aided by an enigmatic guide, has to find her way home... before eldritch eyes find her first.

----
!! The work contains examples of the following tropes:

* AnotherDimension: What seemingly awaits Vita through the Mirror.
* AuthorAppeal: Eldritch horrors, creepily unexplained situations, female teenage protagonists with an edge to them? Anyone who's read ''{{Literature/The Never Mythos}}'' and ''{{Literature/The Heaven Cycle}} may not be surprised.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: 'Yearning for a life beyond making ends meet' leads Vita into quite the disturbing situations...
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Vita would love something exciting to happen to her. She gets her wish.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Vita's appears to be They Might be Giants' ''Careful What You Pack.''
* LighterAndSofter: eldritch horrors? Perhaps, but this appears to be much less dark than previous works by the writer.
* NothingIsScarier: Just ''what'' is responding to Vita's texts and lurking in the house? Not answered, but that makes it all the more unnerving.

Top